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How to Prepare for Diabetes Surgery

As soon as you find out you need surgery, you will see a surgeon for a preoperative visit. The first thing you need to tell the surgeon is that you…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Prepare Food for Diabetic Children

As with adults, a diabetic child's nutritional needs are basically the same as those of children who do not have diabetes. If this sounds too easy to be true, it…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Live with Family and Friends When You Have Diabetes

Your family and friends need to get used to the fact that you have diabetes. The disease has its greatest impact on you, but it also affects the people around…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Manage Your Diabetes While You Are Sick

Everyone gets colds and the flu. Most people fall victim to food poisoning once or twice. Few people fail to stay away from the surgeon's knife or the dentist's pliers…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Participate in a Diabetes Support Groups

At some time during your life as a diabetic, you may want to participate in a support group or become active in a diabetes organization; therefore, knowing something about your…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Learn Relaxation Techniques

Meditation can take many forms. In its purest form, it is a Buddhist religious practice, but anyone can use the technique of meditation, and it need not be religious. It…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Lower Your Blood Glucose If You Come Hyperglycemic

You have hyperglycemia when your blood glucose is 180 mg/dl or higher, when measured at the same time of day, for three or more days in a row. However, there…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Make the Insulin Injection Process Less Painful for Your Child

You may have felt as though you were going to faint the first time you gave your child an insulin injection, and you may still be a little shaky. You…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Make Trips for Diabetics Easier to Deal with

Even if you are going on a much-needed and much-anticipated vacation, and even if you love to travel, it has its stressful momerits. Will you make it to the airport…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Manage Your Fat and Cholesterol to Prevent Diabetes

Dolores had a harder time controlling her intake of fat than of sugar. This is probably true of many of us because fat, even more than sugar, is what makes…

Andrew Reinert February 19, 2010

Food & Cooking

How to Eat Out with Diabetes

In general, you eat away from home the same way you do at home except that you have somewhat less control over what you choose. Unless you're in the hospital…

Leona Kesler February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Develop a Positive Attitude with Diabetes

Developing a positive attitude is one of the most important things you can do, and it may be difficult to accomplish if you live and work in a highly stressful…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Women Sexual Dysfunctions Caused by Diabetes

Menstruation Some diabetic women experience a rise in blood glucose two to four days before their menstrual period. This increase is due to elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone, probably…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Men’s Sexual Dysfunctions Caused by Diabetes

Impotence Many men are more afraid of the possibility of impotence than they are of the side effects of diabetes. Impotence, defined as the inability to achieve or sustain an…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Emotional Factors of Childhood Diabetes

Childhood diabetes has been described as feeling like a bomb that goes off in a family. In some respects this is an apt description because lives are forever altered and…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Diabetes with Intensive Therapy

Intensive diabetes therapy is an attempt to imitate the way a normal pancreas responds to the body's need for insulin. It involves frequent blood glucose testing (four or five times…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Adolescence with Diabetes

This is the time when children will begin to accept full responsibility for managing their diabetes. A young person with a driver's license, a pack of college applications in a…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Cope with Job Discrimination When You Have Diabetes

Legally, you cannot be discriminated against because you have diabetes. Legally, you cannot be discriminated against because of your gender or religion. But legal restrictions have about as much to…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Cope with Stress When You Have Diabetes

When you begin to feel stressed about your diabetes, think about how much of what you are feeling is necessary and how much is not. It is natural to experience…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with Diabetes and Depression

When anger, grief, and denial are directed inward, they can turn into energy-sapping depression. Not only is this not helpful, it can be debilitating. You need all the strength you…

Andrew Reinert February 18, 2010